Michael Knox: When we originally created the John Madden Football game, it was a simulator; it was not a game, and what we did was plug in all the information we could find about a team. We'd take two teams, and we'd plug in all the information about them: where they played (what stadium), what the wind speed was, what the temperature was, whether they were playing on grass or astro turf, whether it was a home game or an away game, injury reports about the players, their strengths and their weaknesses - I mean, we just got every bit of information we could about a team. You know what we'd do? We'd play about twenty million games in one night. The next day, we'd wake up in the morning and look at it and say, for example, that San Francisco was going to beat Denver by a spread of four. We had information so accurate that it was kind of scary, and we could see who was going to win by running the simulation. That's how the game really started.